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Spelling

Spreadsheet

Tilde Character(~)

Unload OCR After n Minutes of Inactivity

Use Language Analyst

28 Commands and Settings

If Hardware Options is not gray, check your scanner's documentation for

how to determine your scanner's port address and other parameters.

These parameters are usually included at the end of the

DEVICE=YOUR_SCANNER entry in your config.sys file.

Choose this to select a user dictionary, set spell-checking options, and

toggle the Language Analyst on and off.

Select this if the application you want to register deals mostly with

numbers in columns.

Direct is designed to automatically work with Windows applications

installed on your hard disk when you install Direct. As you install new

applications, you can set them up to work with Direct by registering the

applications. See the Register Application topic.

The tilde character appears in your text file if Direct could not recognize a

character. You can change the tilde to another character by choosing a

different "reject" character in the Settings dialog box. To display this

dialog box, click the Direct icon once and then click Settings.

Select this if you want Direct to unload the optical character recognition

(OCR) program from your computer's memory when Direct is not used

for a period of time. Direct will take a few seconds to load OCR the next

time you scan a page. "n " stands for a number of minutes from 0 to 99. 0

indicates that OCR will always stay loaded.

There are two parts to the Direct program. One is the part that shows

dialog boxes and drives your scanner. The other, the OCR portion, is the

part that actually analyzes a scanned image and converts it into text. The

OCR part uses a lot of your computer's memory.

Once loaded, OCR normally stays in memory until you close the program.

However, this setting lets you clear OCR from memory without closing

the Direct program.

Select this to use the Language Analyst during recognition. The Language

Analyst automatically performs word and character analysis during

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